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Picked up at the Mitsuwa grocery by a work colleague. Makes you want to visit Engrish.com, doesn't it?

Great New Wine Shop in Venice Beach

For anyone who lives in Venice Beach, you have a great new wine shop on Rose Avenue a few blocks west of Lincoln. I picked up some amazing German wine that Oscar, the owner of Venice Beach Wines, recommened, for about $12 a bottle. You can click here to read by Yelp review that includes contact info and a map. Remember to read Alder Yarrow's Vinography.com if you need some great wine suggestions!

"it's a big world" Performance with Renee & Jeremy

Here is Henry (chewing on a book), in Studio City while seeing our friend Jeremy and his singing partner Renee play at a children's program at Storyopolis. Renee and Jeremy have an fantastic children's album, and you can find out more on the official site (and a really well produced one, at that) for "it's a big world."

Victoria's Secret Hilarity

I forgot I snapped this while shopping with Caro at The Grove. No, I wasn't chasing girls through a lingerie shop, Caro was exchanging a very nice gift I got her. That's right, I'm that guy.

Anyway, the twin girls lounging on the same sofa as a mannequin, and the pinkness of it all, made a great shot. One of them turned to the other as Caro and I passed and said, "What is a boy doing in a girl's store?!"

My sentiments, exactly.

World AIDS Day

Today is World AIDS Day. This is a video project I just completed for PRODUCT (RED). Thanks to everyone at (RED) and the Global Fund, all of whom work so hard and so diligently to work towards the eradication of HIV/AIDS. Find out more at JOINRED.COM.



Thanks to Karen, Rich, Carole, Damion, and everyone at (RED), Tribal DDB, DDB, Spotwelders, Machine Head, Lime Studios, but special thanks to Colette and Bich Ngoc who had the vision to make this project happen.

The Grove's Trolley of Terror!

Do not get on this contraption. Above everything else in LA, nothing reminds me more that people have a false sense of security about terror attacks than the trolley at The Grove. If Department of Homeland Security officials want creative thinking in helping to uncover potential terror targets, then might I suggest the corner of Fairfax and Third Streets? As a friend of mine pointed out, the biggest target in Iraq seems to be marketplaces, and in Israel it's buses and bus stops, and in London it was double decker buses, so why the hell would anyone get on this crowded double decker trolley in a shopping center? On the weekends they're crammed in there like sardines. Anyone can get on, there are crowds of people everywhere you could melt into, the place is practically open to the street, and you could pretty much have a shopping bag of any size and no one would probably even notice it on the trolley.

And one of the most blogged articles on the New York Times is an editorial discussing the need for policy to counter the fact that Al Qaeda is undergoing a resurgence, and warns of a potential for more targets in the West.

America, for Spacious Aisles.

There's a new WalMart Supercenter out in Rosemead, where I had headed out for a client meeting. It's so huge, it's overwhelming. It also smells like the inside of a new piece of cheap plastic luggage. It would take hours to roam the aisles. At first it seemed like a good idea (and they did have some great prices on HDTVs), but after about 15 minutes under the warehouse flourescent lighting, I started feeling sick. I did pick up some baby food (also inexpensive) and some other crap I had kept forgetting to buy (e.g. shoe polish). To add insult to injury, I had to push my cart past the overwhelming yeasty-bun smell of a McDonald's on the way out the door. It was super big, for sure, but in the end it was super depressing. Oh, and the grocery store had a lot of organic produce, though. That was suprising.